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NYU Men's Track & Field Team Sets Several Season-Best Marks

NYU Men's Track & Field Team Sets Several Season-Best Marks
Posted: Jan 24, 2014

From NYU Athletics

The New York University men's track & field team hosted the NYU Team Challenge on Friday, January 24, at the New Balance Track and Field Center in Manhattan. Athletes from NCAA Division I, II and III schools, as well as from several track clubs, competed.

There was no team scoring.

"Many team members ran season-bests today," said NYU Head Coach Nick McDonough. "Sprinter Matthew Powers improved in two events - the 60m and 200m. There were also a number of strong performances in the middle distance and distance events. Zac Kish with his 800m time (1:55.07) should be the University Athletic Association leader in the event. Our pole vaulters also had a good showing."

Powers placed fourth in the 200m (22.41) and 11th (7.17) in the 60m.

Kish opened his season in the 800m with a sixth-place finish. Max Avila set a personal best of 1:58.70 in the race, which was good for a top-20 finish (19th place). Curtis Mann knocked more than five seconds off his personal best with a time of 2:01.42 for 28th place.

Sebastian Oja, running in his first mile race of the season, had a strong finish spurt and won his heat with a personal-best time of 4:22.07. Dharan Kadiyala improved on last week's time by more than one second (4:23.12) and placed 14th.

Highlights:

- The NYU "A" team (Ryan Gilmore, Avila, Aaron Walker, and Steve Crnic) took third place in the distance medley relay with a season-best time of 10:29.33. The 4x400m relay squad (Mann, Chevaun Samuels, Budd Brown, and Kish) ran 3:26.56 for seventh place.

- Brown posted a top-10 finish in the 500m, clocking 1:07.19 (10th place). Samuels set a personal best of 1:10.31 for 27th place, while Tom Donegan placed 24th (1:09.93).

- Tom Longabaugh for the second week straight cleared the bar at 4.30m in the pole vault. It was good for 11th place. Nick Hespe went 4.15m for 14th place, while Mike Sabarese placed 15th with a season-best 4.00m.

- James Hunt and Johnny Lake placed 19th and 20th in the 3,000m with times of 8:59.46 and 8:59.30, respectively.

- For the third straight week both NYU weight throwers, Carter Beardsley and Antony Zeng, placed among the top-10. Zeng was eighth (13.82m) and Beardsley placed ninth (13.51m).